Connie Tang, Author at Research Impact Canada

Community Based Research Canada (CBRC) Symposium “From Recession to Renewal: The Vital Contribution of Community Based Research”

Posted on July 20, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

Last month in Ottawa Community Based Research Canada (CBRC) held a working Symposium “From Recession to Renewal: The Vital Contribution of Community Based Research”. This event was co-hosted by the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University, and saw a number of speaking panels comprised of both academic and community leaders. A paper titled “Funding […]

Everything is ready to go for another GS 500 Interdisciplinary Graduate course at the University of Victoria!

Posted on July 15, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

These courses match interdisciplinary graduate students up with real life research questions coming from a partnering agency in the community. For the fall 2009 course the Community partner is the BC Ministry of Housing and Social Development. Questions coming from the Ministry will focus on topics such as: homelessness in our community; rental market and […]

Those who can do…

Posted on July 6, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

CIHR does a great job creating training spaces for emerging KT (their acronym for KM) researchers. CIHR has posted KT learning modules on line and they hosted a KT summer institute which was recently written up from the perspective of some of the students at the institute, available here. Michelle E Kho and her fellow […]

ResearchImpact wishes Sarah Dickie all the best in her move to Prince George, BC.

Posted on June 30, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

Sarah has been the Administrative Coordinator for the UVic Office of Community Based Research for almost two years. Along with being a bright and smiling face in the office and dealing with the piles of day-to-day administrative tasks, Sarah has been vital to OCBR’s Community outreach work, and has also been the main coordinator for […]

Re-Launch of the Homeless Hub

Posted on June 23, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

The KM Units of York and UVic are pleased to support Stephen Gaetz and homelessness research including the Homeless Hub. Mobilize This! recently wrote about some of this work and we are pleased to feature the re-launch of this knowledge mobilization website. As featured in Yfile on Friday the Homeless Hub will re-launch providing researchers, […]

Federal Partners in Technology Transfer Welcomes ResearchImpact

Posted on June 22, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

John Biles, Director of Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer for the Metropolis Project (on the left) Craig McNaughton, Director of the Knowledge Mobilization and Program Integration Division at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (on the right) Peter N. Levesque, Director of Systems and Operations at Knowledge Mobilization Works (second from right) David […]

1 Million Hits and Counting

Posted on June 17, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

999,997 We launched www.researchimpact.ca in 2006 and it was pretty much a place holder until May 2007 in time for Congress where ResearchImpact had its launch. The ResearchImpact web site at that time had a video or two (Ben Levin’s talk for example) but was mostly explaining what we were. May 2007 saw 17,773 hits […]

Knowledge Mobilization at York Looks Forward

Posted on June 12, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

On June 5, the KM Unit at York spent a day off-site at the Toronto Centre for Social Innovation embarking on visioning exercises to help define the scope of programs that will be offered in the fall. This is important as the current project funding will be sunsetting and operations will need streamlining to support […]

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